Method of securing calks to horseshoes



May 1, 1923. I 1,453,899

D. YENSEN I METHOD OF SECURING CALKS TO HORSESHOES Filed Feb. 26 1920 wvemtoz DouyZas yen/6'61 Patented May 1, 1923.

UNETED STATES noneres YENSEN, or nosnnnnnv, IDAHO.

IVIEIHOD F SECURING CALKS TO HORSESHOES.

Application filed February 26, 1920. Serial'No. 361,538.

1 0 all whom it may concern.

Be it known that DOUGLAS YnNsnN, citizen of the United States, residing at Roseberry. in the county of Valley and State of Idaho,

has invented certain new and useful Improvements in Methods of Securing Calks to Horseshoes, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to an im-.

proved method of attaching calks to horseshoes and to provide an improved means whereby the independent heating of the shoe and calk will be eliminated to the end that the operation can he quickly and efficiently accomplished securing cooperation.

v Heretofore in securing calks to horseshoes. it has been necessary to first heat the shoe. After th shoe has been heated the calk is heated and the welding operation accomplished. To eliminate the two independent heating operations, I contemplate providing a method by which both the shoe and call;

can be heated at the same time, an extension of the call; being placed in a slot in the shoe and the welding operation performed.

Fig. 1 is a view in perspective showing a horseshoe with the calk attached.

Figur 2 is a view in cross section of a horseshoe showing the calk in place after the welding operation.

Figure 3 is a view in perspective of the calk. I

Fig. 4 is aview in rear elevation of the call: and a view in cross section of th shoe showing the same after the welding opera tion. y

In illustrating my improved method, I

have shown in the drawings a shoe 10 of conventional type being provided near the toe with an elongated opening 11 for the reception of a portion of the calk. The month of the openingis flared as shown at 12 for the purposes that will presently appear.

The calk 13 is provided with a tenon 1.4 which is substantially wedge-shaped in crosssection and which is designed to fit the opening 11 of the shoe. f In securing the call: to th shoe the tenon 14: is first placed in the opening 11 of the shoe, after which the shoe and calk are welded simultaneously and the tenon welded in place, its principal end being beaded as at 15 to fit the flared mouth of the opening 11.

The flared end 12, it is to be noted, pro-' vides a pocket or seat for the head or head of the pinion and serves, to give shape or form to the head as it is pounded out. The purpose of thepocket is to cause the calk" to become firmly wedged to the shoe and to prevent the same from becoming loosened when subjected to continual pounding on a hard surface. This is accomplished by rea- -son of the fact that the tenon is wedge shaped or tapered to prevent movement through the slot in one direction while the head orbead at the end of the pinion prevents movement through the slot in the opposite direction.

Consequently, after the welding operation. a more durable and lasting structure is obtained than where the welding alone is depended upon for holdingthe calkproperly.

' What is claimed is The method of securing a toe calk toa horseshoe which consists in forming the shoe with an elongated wedge-shaped slot and flaring themouth of the slot at the narrow end to provide a bead pocket, formingthe call: with a wedge-shaped tenon to fit througl'i the slot, heating the shoe and calk simultaneously and welding the tenon in place by beading it on the end to provide a head filling the flared mouth or pocket of the slot and locking the calk to the shoe.

In testimony whereof I afiix'my signature.

DOUGLAS YENSEN. 

